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TechFoundation Inc

The Organization delivers technology, expertise, and capital to help nonprofit organizations harness the power of information technology.

$301k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$222kArts & Culture$213kInternational$100kScience & Tech$68kCommunity Improvement$60kPhilanthropy$55kHealth$54k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $81,920, the rows itemized in this filing. The $300,554 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $218,634 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
$76,920
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boston Symphony Orchestra$76,920
Brian Skerry Photography$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%Cambridge Community Founda: $26k → 8%Boston Symphony Orchestra: $77k → 16%PAIDEIA INSTITUTE FOR HUMANISTIC: $80k → 20%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $100k → 9%CHRISTIAN CENTURY: $8k → 14%VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES: $20k → 9%VERMONT LAND TRUST: $20k → 9%THE GOVERNOR'S INSTITUTE OF: $14k → 10%INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES: $25k → 9%BRIAN SKERRY PHOTOGRAPHY LLC: $50k → 9%FRIENDS OF IDA AND OXFORD INC: $10k → 8%Boston Symphony Orechestra: $40k → 16%PAIDEIA INSTITUTE FOR HUMANISTIC: $50k → 20%VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES: $20k → 9%BRIAN SKERRY PHOTOGRAPHY LLC: $25k → 9%BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL: $40k → 16%VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES: $17k → 9%BRIAN SKERRY PHOTOGRAPHY LLC: $15k → 9%SAMETZ BLACKSTONE ASSOCIATES INC: $42k → 16%VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES: $15k → 9%Brian Skerry Photography: $5k → 9%THE BOSTON FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES: $15k → 9%FIDELITY CHARITABLE: $60k → 16%WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of TechFoundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

TechFoundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$429k · 4 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$429k
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+2%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PI
    PAIDEIA INSTITUTE FOR HUMANISTIC STUDY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $130k · revenue +18%
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $117k · revenue 0%
  • BS
    BRIAN SKERRY PHOTOGRAPHY LLC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $95k

Funded once

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +21%
  • SB
    SAMETZ BLACKSTONE ASSOCIATES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $42k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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4
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
6
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
7
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc

The mission of vins is to motivate individuals and communities to care for the environment through education, research, and avian wildlife rehabilitation.

Environment
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd

Information is power. the mission of the vermont journalism trust and vtdigger.org, is to give that power to vermonters by making complex public policy issues readily accessible, by holding government accountable and by giving readers…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund; the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAIDEIA INSTITUTE FOR HUMANISTIC STUDY: $130,000 · Arts & CulturePAIDEIA INSTITUTE FOR HUMANISTIC …BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $117,170 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC+1 more: $8,000 · Arts & CultureBRIAN SKERRY PHOTOGRAPHY LLC: $95,000 · OtherBRIAN SKERRY PHOTOGRAPHY LLCSAMETZ BLACKSTONE ASSOCIATES INC: $41,829 · OtherSAMETZ BLACKSTONE ASSOCIATES I…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $40,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORA…CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $26,250 · OtherCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION…GOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT: $13,600 · OtherGOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMO…FRIENDS OF IDA AND OXFORD INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC: $87,000 · EnvironmentTHE VERMONT CE…VERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT LAND T…Save The Children Federation Inc: $100,000 · InternationalSave The Chil…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $60,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY IN…INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementINNOVATION …Boston Foundation Inc: $55,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Fou…WTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyWTS BOSTON…
Arts & Culture$255,170Other$226,679Environment$107,000International$100,000Community Improvement$85,000Philanthropy$80,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPAIDEIA INSTITUTE FOR HUMANISTIC STUDY: $130,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $117,170 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC: $87,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWTS BOSTON CHARITABLE FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT: $13,600 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF IDA AND OXFORD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization TechFoundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from TechFoundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Governor's Institutes of Vermont: 15% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to TechFoundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to TechFoundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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